This week we blink in terror over the awful things that can happen to your peepers. Join us as we discuss eyes filled with contacts, hairy eye tumors, the unfortunate side effect of cat eyes, and several eye parasites.

Images we squirmed about:

19:40 https://images.emedicinehealth.com/images/slideshow/eye_diseases_and_cond_s8_uveitis.jpg

23:35 https://cdn.iwastesomuchtime.com/d3110487-be15-4fd3-8e78-7682c43f6113.png

25:57 https://www.livescience.com/25933-hairy-eyeball-rare-tumor.html

29:27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/548c8698e4b0d8f79a361776/1528240360104-TFD2JUHM9I1G1IGA3RQJ/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kMfmDRYjq1DZOEzXkNqalv5Zw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZamWLI2zvYWH8K3-s_4yszcp2ryTI0HqTOaaUohrI8PIRIOrN9Lwzue3jE9EJrEKbcm05EfEhgk2e9tLgFnY20YKMshLAGzx4R3EDFOm1kBS/1387289668.jpg?format=300w

Links:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/eye

https://phobia.wikia.org/wiki/Ommetaphobia

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/563242/parts-of-the-eye-facts

https://www.light-for-the-world.org/causes-blindness

https://www.healthline.com/health/eye-herpes#recovery

https://www.nature.com/articles/eye2017226

https://whatdewhat.com/10-animals-two-eyes/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

https://www.healthline.com/health/ophthalmoplegia#symptoms

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tennessee-man-michael-spann-cries-tears-of-blood-says-report/

https://theconversation.com/inside-the-colourful-world-of-animal-vision-30878

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/farthest-milk-squirting-distance

https://www.aop.org.uk/ot/science-and-vision/research/2017/07/14/uk-surgeon-finds-27-missing-contact-lenses-in-womans-eye

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-found-a-woman-whose-eyes-have-a-whole-new-type-of-colour-receptor

https://www.livescience.com/25933-hairy-eyeball-rare-tumor.html

https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/26/cat-eye-syndrome

https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/news/20180212/ick-us-woman-has-first-case-of-human-eye-worm#1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelazia

https://www.emedicinehealth.com/image-gallery/blepharitis_picture/images.htm

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/166410.php#complications

https://www.lighthouseguild.org/vision-health/biettis-crystalline-dystrophy/

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness/a19179723/kaylee-muthart-eye-gouge-crystal-meth/